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in with orange-yellow ; a curved dark red-brown subterminal line 

 from costa to the postmedial line at vein 1, the area beyond it 

 suffused with orange-yellow and with a silvery and brown streak 

 beyond it below costa ; a narrow red-brown terminal band with a 

 series of minute silvery spots on it ; cilia orange-yellow with some 

 brown scales before tips which are whitish. Hind wing silvery 

 white, the termen and cilia tinged with yellow. Underside white, 

 the costa of fore wing tinged with yellow-brown. 



Hab. D'Entrecasteaux Is., Fergusson I. {Meek), 2 <3 type. 

 Exp. 26 mm. 



(5 f) C'irrhochrista bifurcalis, sp. n. 



Head and thorax white ; antenna 3 slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi black-brown glossed with silver, white below towards base ; 

 abdomen white, dorsally suffused with dark bi"own on medial seg- 

 ments, the penultimate segment with yellow band with black points 

 at sides, the anal tuft with yellow spot and black point ; fore tibiae 

 and tarsi banded with orange and black. Fore wing white, the 

 costa orange ; a dark brown and silvery streak just below costa to 

 middle ; a narrow oblique orange antemedial band with an incurved 

 silvery and dark brown line on it ; red-brown medial and post- 

 medial lines with small silvery spots on them, the former excurved, 

 the latter incurved and anastomosing with the former at middle, 

 ending on termen above tornus, its fork towards costa filled in with 

 orange and with an orange mark on it below vein 3 ; an oblique 

 slightly sinuous red-brown line with black and silvery points on it 

 at the veins from costa before apex to termen below vein 4, a brown 

 and silvery streak beyond it below costa ; a narrow silvery and 

 brown terminal band with some black points before it towards apex. 

 Hind wing silvery white. Underside white ; fore wing with 

 oblique series of dark points from costa beyond middle to vein 4 

 near termen and dark points on termen towards apex. 



Ab. 1. Abdomen with subdorsal dark brown and silvery spots on 

 medial segments and without the } T ellow mark and black points 

 on terminal segments. Formosa. 



Ab. 2. Abdomen tinged with rufous except at base ; fore wing 

 tinged with yellow-buff. Philippines to N. Guinea. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the area below the cell suffused with 

 black-brown between the antemedial and medial lines. 



Hab. Formosa, Kanshirei (Wileman), 4 £ ; Assam, Khasis, 

 1 d type ; Philippines, Mt. Makiling {Baker), 1 $ ; S. Celebes 

 (Doherty), 1 S , Sangir I. (Doherty), 1 J ; Dutch N. Guinea, 

 Humbolt Bay (Doherty), 1 6 . Exp. 22-26 mm. 



(of) C'irrhochrista primulina, sp. n. 



2 ■ Head and thorax white ; antenna? tinged with red-brown ; 

 frons black at sides ; palpi tinged with red-brown and with blackish 



